Re: Windows Xp Service Pack 2

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Vikas Ahuja [MSFT] (vahuja_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/23/04


Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:13:01 -0700

Good idea. Following also be worth a try:
http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support&mid=4fd6a163-9702-4ec0-950e-df03895096cf&sloc=en-us

It basically recommends to defrag and disk clean up as well.

"Rock" wrote:

> Westin wrote:
>
> > After installing service pack 2 my boot time is alot
> > longer and even if i instruct windows not to alert me it
> > alerts me that the firewall is off can anyone help if not
> > can anyone help me uninstall service pack 2? please
>
> That happened with me. The culprit was the Sygate firewall.
> Uninstalling and reinstalling removed that niggle. Your situation is
> different but the steps to work it out are the same. Do some boot
> troubleshooting, deselecting the startup programs one at a time using
> Msconfig to find out which one is the problem.
>
> How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
>
> How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
>
>



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